The dread of difference gender and the horror film /
| Other Authors: | Grant, Barry Keith, 1947- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2003.
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| Physical Description: |
xv, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: |
Texas film studies series.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- When the woman looks / Linda Williams
- Horror and the monstrous-feminine: an imaginary abjection / Barbara Creed
- Her body, himself: gender in the slasher film / Carol J. Clover
- "It will thrill you, it may shock you, it might even horrify you": gender, reception, and classic horror cinema / Rhona J. Berenstein
- Bringing it all back home: family economy and generic exchange / Vivian Sobchack
- Trying to survive on the darker side: 1980s family horror / Tony Williams
- Genre, gender, and the Aliens trilogy / Thomas Doherty
- Taking back the Night of the living dead: George Romero, feminism, and the horror film / Barry Keith Grant
- Gender, genre, Argento / Adam Knee
- "Beyond the veil of the flesh": Cronenberg and the disembodiment of horror / Lianne McLarty
- The horror film in neoconservative culture / Christopher Sharrett
- Horror, femininity, and Carrie's monstrous puberty / Shelley Stamp Lindsey
- The monster as woman: two generations of cat people / Karen Hollinger
- Here comes the bride: wedding gender and race in Bride of Frankenstein / Elizabeth Young
- King Kong: the beast in the boudoir, or, "you can't marry that girl, you're a gorilla!" / Harvey Roy Greenberg
- The Stepfather: father as monster in the contemporary horror film / Patricia Brett Erens
- Burying the undead: the use and obsolescence of Count Dracula / Robin Wood
- Daughters of darkness: the lesbian vampire on film / Bonnie Zimmerman
- From Dracula, with love / Vera Dika
- The place of passion: reflections on Fatal attraction / James Conlon
- Birth traumas: parturition and horror in Rosemary's baby / Lucy Fischer.